Craft Ideas for Kids

When it comes to major holidays, it’s always a great idea to engage young children in craft projects to help them celebrate the occasion.

Kids not only love holiday-themed projects, but it also helps them to expand their creative side.

It's best to introduce children to crafting when they're small. When they're around preschool age, that's the perfect time to start. Because Easter is coming up, it’s the perfect time to explore ideas for Easter crafts for preschoolers.

These crafts are easy and fun, and don't take long at all; that is, unless you want to do all of them!

We have compiled this list of 15 fun Easter crafts for preschoolers:

15 Easy Easter Crafts for Kids

1) Handprint Sheep

2) Finger Paint Easter Eggs

3) Handprint Bunny

4) Carrot Footprint

5) Paper Bunny Ears

6) Paint Chip Egg Garland

7) 3D Paper Eggs

8) Easter Bunny Rolls

9) Egg Button Art

10) Bunny Cups

11) Decorate-a-Bunny

12) Fancy Feathered Friends

13) Easter Egg Carton Chicks

14) Eggimals

15) Good, Old-Fashioned Egg Dying

Handprint Crafts

1) Handprint Sheep

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Handprint Sheep Instructions

What You Need:

construction paper

black paint

cotton balls

glue

Directions:

Make a black handprint on paper.

Glue cotton balls to the palm of the handprint when dry, only slightly overlapping the fingers.

Turn page upside down so fingers point down, and you have a wooly sheep waiting to be decorated!

2) Fingerprint Easter Egg Instructions

What You'll Need:

colorful finger paints

paper

glitter, stickers, etc.

glue

Directions:

Tell your kids to paint an Easter egg only using their fingertips.

Once they have their egg shape, let them decorate it with glitter, pom poms, or whatever they want!

3) Handprint Bunny

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Handprint Bunny Instructions

What You'll Need:

white, pink and black paint

paper (any color but white)

Directions:

Make a “Spock” handprint in white with the thumb bent into the palm (fingers spread, with index and middle touching, and pinky and ring finger touching).

You’ve now made the shape of a bunny.

Use the paint to paint the face and ears in however your heart desires.

4) Carrot Footprint Instructions

What You'll Need:

paper

green and orange paint

markers

Directions:

Paint the bottom of the child’s foot orange up to the pad under the toes. The pad and toes will be green.

Press the paper into the foot, making sure most of it makes good contact to print.

You’ve now made a carrot with a footprint.

Use the markers to add detail to the carrot, and don’t forget to write the year somewhere.

Paper Crafts

5) Paper Bunny Ears

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Instructions for Bunny Ears

What You'll Need:

white and pink construction paper

scissors

glue stick

Directions:

Cut a two-inch thick strip lengthwise from white construction paper.

Cut two bunny ear shapes from white construction and two smaller bunny ear shapes from the pink paper.

Lay the strip flat, and glue the two white ear pieces toward the middle of the strip with the bottoms of the ears being level with the bottom of the strip.

Glue the pink toward the middle of the white ear pieces.

Once dry, wrap around child's head to size it. Mark your spot, then glue it together.

6) Paint Chip Egg Garland Instructions

What You'll Need:

paint chip samples found in the paint aisle at any hardware store

hole puncher

string

Directions:

Cut egg shapes out of each sample.

Punch two holes in the top of each, and weave the string throughout all of the eggs.

What types of arts and crafts do with your kids?

Crafting With Your Kids

Whether you are looking for Easter crafts for preschoolers, for your own child, or you teach a whole classroom of preschoolers, all of these crafts are fun and make terrific keepsakes for the kids and parents alike!

You can make frames out of popsicle sticks for easy hanging for most of these crafts, and this will give the child something extra to decorate, too.

While doing these fun projects, make sure you are playing holiday-appropriate music, and make it extra fun with holiday-themed snacks! Oh, and don’t forget the smocks; crafts aren’t meant to be clean projects!